Mighty Mouse Robot Faces Nuclear Threat

Roland Piquepaille writes, "It's unusual to find a news release as
fascinating as a thriller. But this is the case with this
story about the adventures of 'Mighty Mouse', a robot used at Sandia
National Laboratories to free a stuck deadly radioactive source and to
safely return it to its insulated base. It took four days for M2, as
this robot is also called, and its operators, to achieve the task.
During these four days, the 600-pound, five-foot-long robot M2 was
frozen by radioactivity and some of its components have been replaced by
parts found at Home Depot." For more on the incident and a photo of
the robot, see Roland's blog.